by Bryan Taylor | Nov 30, 2018 | Blog, Data, Economics, Historical, Insights
Global Financial Data has produced indices that cover global markets from 1601 until 2018. In organizing this data, we have discovered that the history of the stock market over the past 400 years can be broken up into four distinct eras when economic and political...
by Bryan Taylor | Nov 30, 2018 | Blog, Historical
Global Financial Data has produced indices that cover global markets from 1601 until 1815 as a first step toward creating a World Index that provides data on equities from 1601 until 2018. As we have discussed in another blog, “The Fifth Financial Era: Singularity,”...
by Bryan Taylor | Nov 29, 2018 | Blog, Historical, Insights
Global Financial Data has produced indices that cover global markets from 1601 until 2018. In organizing this data, we have discovered that the history of the stock market over the past 400 years can be broken up into four distinct eras when economic and...
by Bryan Taylor | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog, Data, Economics, GFD in Action, Historical
Global Financial Data has calculated a 100-share index that is more comprehensive than existing long-term indices of the United States stock market. GFD has collected historical data on U.S. shares from 1791 until 2017 and is using this database to calculate a more...
by Bryan Taylor | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog, Economics, Historical
This month the world is marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I which officially ended at 11 am on November 11, 1918. Few people, however, have talked about the impact of the Great War on financial markets, both during and after the war was over....